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Transitioning to Product from a Functional Role

Mind the Product

Transitioning from a functional role such as marketing or engineering to product can seem daunting, especially if your education and experience aren’t specifically tailored to product, but it can be done. Product roles are becoming increasingly important in many companies, from the unicorn startups to older more established firms.

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The Marketplace Starter Pack

The Product Coalition

The beginning of the 21st century was marked by the rise of tech startups and one of the most common business models from the beginning are online marketplaces. To begin with, the search engines and filtering should be adequate for the segment of your company. so don’t mess up in this part.

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The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

Google - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, written by Larry Page & Sergey Brin in 1998. For example, here is a video from 2016 that showcases the vision for SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System which aims to bring the first manned crew to Mars. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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a16z Podcast: Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more

Andrew Chen

Today’s episode is all about growth, one of the most top of mind questions for entrepreneurs — of all kinds of startups, and especially for consumer ones. Andrew: And that is what startups mostly care about in the early days, because you don’t really have any active users, right? Part 1: User Acquisition. Sonal: Yesss!

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

Hi readers, The growth teams at Uber and Airbnb occasionally met over the years to share best practices, brainstorm ideas, and share observations on the startup world. As a result of this experience, I’m often asked what I’d recommend startups do to grow supply in their marketplace. Tactic #3: Offer a referrals program.

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Bootstrapping A Business In The Face Of Well-Funded Competition | Laura Roeder, MeetEdgar | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

So I know that it’s possible and I’m here talking to you today to share some tactical strategies that you can use in your startup to compete with such a big company. Every engineer in this room is the most talented and brilliant engineer that has ever existed. Yet we’re still alive and profitable and happy.

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Bootstrapping A Business In The Face Of Well-Funded Competition | Laura Roeder, MeetEdgar | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

So I know that it’s possible and I’m here talking to you today to share some tactical strategies that you can use in your startup to compete with such a big company. Every engineer in this room is the most talented and brilliant engineer that has ever existed. Yet we’re still alive and profitable and happy.